(Re-)Introducing GameVault: The Self-Hosted Gaming Platform

Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 185 points – 1 years ago

Hi guys,

we're excited to reconnect with you all here on Lemmy after our project "Crackpipe" generated quite a buzz recently. With its brand new name, we proudly present "GameVault"!

In case you missed our, let's say - "controversial" debut on reddit and lemmy, let us give you a quick rundown of what GameVault is all about:

GameVault is a fantastic gaming platform that you can host yourself, allowing you and your friends to enjoy "alternatively obtained" games on your own terms. It simplifies the whole gaming experience by organizing, downloading, installing, playing, and tracking your favorite games right on your file server. GameVault automatically detects game files, builds a metadata database, and offers a user-friendly client for seamless downloading and gameplay. Imagine having your own personalized Steam for games stored on your file server!

Linux users, please note that we don't currently have a native client available. However, our documentation includes a community-driven approach to running the client on Linux, which you can find under "Advanced Usage."

Are you ready to add another Link to your Dashboards?

Feel free to pay a visit to our website and join our Discord and Lemmy Community to become part of an awesome community!

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Sure, could you send a link to it? Not sure which repo is the correct one. Also, I'm going to work on creating a NixOS option for GameVault first, so once that is done I'll start on the Lutris integration.

I gotchu

Thanks!

Is there any documentation available for building the backend manually? I would like to make it available on NixOS, which requires writing a Nix package for it.

Thank you so much for the effort.

Unfortunately there is no documentation available for manual installation as of right now, but you can follow the steps in the Dockerfile provided at this link: https://github.com/Phalcode/gamevault-backend/blob/master/Dockerfile

In a nutshell:

Make sure you have NodeJS installed (version 20 or higher)
Install the pnpm package globally with "npm install -g pnpm"
Clone the project and navigate to the appropriate folder
Run "pnpm install" to install dependencies
Execute "pnpm build"
Create an .env file in the main folder, including the desired configurations from https://gamevau.lt/docs/server-docs/configuration
Launch production mode with "pnpm start:prod"

Depending on your preferred database, you can either run a PostgreSQL instance (recommended + nixos probably has a suitable package you can rely on) or use SQLite (unrecommended).

We would be very grateful if you could grant our organization Maintainer permissions. By doing so, we will have the official capacity to provide support, updates, and share the NixOS integration with others. It would mean a lot to us if you could also include it in our documentation, which can be found at this link: https://github.com/Phalcode/gamevault-docs/blob/master/docs/server-docs/setup.md

Thanks! I'd be happy to add one of you as the maintainer to the Nix package. If you let me know who, I can @ someone in the nixpkgs PR. I'll make a draft for the docs once I've submitted the nixpkgs pr.

the @Phalcode organization or if that doesnt work @alfagun74 directly